Wanted: GA Zebra or IBM RT machine
Anthony Stramaglia
machines collecting dust anywhere they'd like to unload?
I used a MD Reality and CIE Systems 680 and helped write some apps
while I was in high school for a local law office. Once saw an RT and
GA Zebra and wished I could have had either one back then to learn on
in my spare time.
I collect vintage hardware nowadays, so naturally I would love to have
one or both of the Zebra or RT.
als-at-securix-dot-net
hbkeultjes
machines are worthless for your purposes.
Why not download a free copy of Open QM and work with that.
Henry Keultjes
Mansfield Ohio USA
frosty
> We have several RT's but, unless you have the original RT OS these
> machines are worthless for your purposes.
I'd go so far as to say that even if you _did_ have the O/S, those
machines are worthless for your purposes.
> Why not download a free copy of Open QM and work with that.
Seriously: what Henry said. Any modern PC will outperform those
old RT boxes, and you'll save a bundle on electricity. Not to
mention the connectivity you'll get with Open QM that you wouldn't
get with the ancient O/S on the RT.
--
frosty
eppick77
If what he is wanting is a machine to code on and do work the by all
means Henry's suggestion is the way to go.
However, I got out of the posting that he wanted a machine because he
collects vintage hardware.
Eugene
hbkeu...@earthlink.net
Come to think of it, I might also have a GA Zebra machine.
BTW, Eugene, please send me the link on the Ohio Pick users.
Henry
eppick77
Henry,
Here is the link to the Ohio Pick Users Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/opugmail?hl=en
I look forward to seeing you there.
Eugene
eppick77
Henry,
Please pass the link along to others in Ohio. I do not have Bob's
email address, so please send it to him.
Thanks
Anthony Stramaglia
Hi all,
Yes, that is correct. I collect vintage computer systems.
I don't plan to use them for production or development. They're just
for my personal enjoyment and to preserve the history of a vintage
system that might otherwise end up in a recycler's scrapyard.
I've done some Pick development in my years as well, so I'm even
moreso motivated to try to find one or both.
A few years ago, I managed to save a working Sanyo/ICON that came from
a manufacturing plant in Philly.
My first exposure to a GA Zebra was in the studios of WFMU back in
like 1986-87. One of the DJ's there was a Pick guy, but I didn't know
that until I was at the studio one day and saw that he was working
with Pick. In one of those "small world" moments, I found out he knew
the consultant working on the Pick system at my lawfirm...which at
that point shouldn't have been surprising.
Regards,
Anthony
wjhonson
heavy piece of equipment. I have an ADDS 1800 (I think that's what it
is) that's been sitting in the corner of my bedroom for the past ten
years. One of my clients couldn't pay me five hundred bucks one time,
so I said I'd take that instead and we were both happy. I haven't
turned it on in at least eight years.
Will Johnson
sdavmor
I took a pair of Microdata 1600s from Jack Dement at Aztec Shops in
lieu of several thousand dollars from contract programming back in
1983/84. 2 years later, having never fired them up, I gave them to
Thom McTeer if we would please just come and remove them from my house!
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several sets of original RT software disks. No hardware though...
Dave G